Autism
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Rain. Silence. Mercy.
When silence becomes praise and mercy meets the rain-soaked soil, even the overlooked find their place in the liturgy of being seen. This week’s reflection honours the quiet dignity of showing up—without performance, without apology. Continue reading
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Otto in Belfast
Otto the autism support bear visits Belfast—quiet comfort when a missing salamander stirs unexpected feelings at the museum. Continue reading
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When the Word Stands Alone
Is the Word enough? A reflection on Scripture, Tradition, and Reason—and the danger of standing alone. #NeuroDivine Continue reading
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Let Them Come
Children aren’t distractions—they’re divine disruptions. Let them come, wiggle, wonder, worship. Church isn’t tidy—it’s alive with grace. Continue reading
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Golden Arches, Gentle Mercies
There’s a kind of liturgy in the McDonald’s breakfast queue. The same greeting. The same menu. The same McMuffin, wrapped like a small gift of consistency. For someone who lives with autism—and the rhythms of dialysis—that sameness is not dull. It’s dignifying. Before treatment, when the body braces and the spirit steadies, a McMuffin becomes Continue reading
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Pattern, Presence, Praise
Even when nights are short, rhythm endures—through psalms, memory, and offering poured out in trust, resistance, and presence. Continue reading
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Held in Pattern
Finding grace in constraint, cosmic signs, and the body’s vigil There is a rhythm to dialysis. Not unlike the rhythm of the Divine Office—structured, necessary, and at times, painfully honest. It is a rhythm that reveals what is hidden: toxins, fragility, dependence. And yet, in that exposure, there is mercy. Psalm 51 dares us to Continue reading
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Stone Word Witness
Practices that steady the heart through beauty, warning, and faithful speech. I sit with these passages as someone formed by a rhythm of shared work, ordered days, and quiet liturgical practice, and also as someone whose senses and attention follow different pathways. Here the scriptures meet the landscape of island weather, the inward order of Continue reading
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Faithful in exile
Grief, grace, and quiet endurance in the margins of scripture and life Reflection on the Sunday readings. Jerusalem sits empty. The psalmist weeps by foreign waters. Timothy is urged to rekindle a gift that feels fragile. The apostles beg for more faith, and Jesus answers with a story about a servant doing what is asked, Continue reading
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Jesus Loves Me—And That Changes Everything
A reflection from an Irish Anglican autistic perspective on love, memory, and belonging “Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so.” We sang it every week in Sunday School, small voices piping through the church hall, surrounded by crayons, juice cartons, and the gentle chaos of kindergarten faith. I don’t remember Continue reading
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